tzname

[Robert Collins]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
Cc: <cygwin-patches@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 11:57 PM
Subject: Re: tzname


> Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
> > To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
> >
> > Everything I've actually cross checked has matched.
> >
>
> That's good to hear.  I've used the opengroup for reference before and
> glad to know I can count on it.

<grin> it's not quite the same thing :]

> Q: Is _tznames an ANSI spec?  Cygwin supports both ANSI and POSIX.
>

No idea - I went to build a package (netsaint), it had tzname hard coded
(well that or tm->timezone via configure), so I goooooogled for tzname,
read the spec, compared with cygwin, tried a define.. it worked and
voila a patch was mailed.

My personal concept: patch the OS not the package :]

Rob.